The 31st ASIAN FINANCE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING

The AsianFA annual conference provides an open platform for finance scholars and practitioners worldwide to meet and share their recent research and exchange ideas and information on new developments in finance research. We look forward to a high- quality conference. The majority of the sessions will include papers selected through open competition. The papers will be double blind-reviewed by a committee of established researchers.

CONFERENCE THEME

Papers in all areas of finance are welcome, including but not limited to asset pricing, corporate finance, corporate governance, derivative, financial crisis, financial intermediation, international finance, sustainable finance and market microstructure. Accepted papers are eligible for several categories of best paper awards as shown below, which will be selected by various Award Committees.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Professor David M REEB

David Reeb is a Professor of Finance and holds the Mr. and Mrs. Lin Jo Yan Professorship in Banking and Finance in the Department of Finance at National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School. Dr. Reeb also serves as a Senior Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER), a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, and as the Director of Business Doctoral Programs at NUS.

Professor Michelle Lowry

Michelle is the TD Bank Professor of Finance at the LeBow School of Business, Drexel University, and the Academic Director of the Institute for Corporate Governance at the University. She received her PhD from the University of Rochester, and was previously a professor at Penn State University. In addition, she is a past visiting professor at INSEAD and at the Wharton School. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Financial Economics, a past associate editor of the Review of Financial Studies, and a founding member of AFFECT (Academic Female Finance Committee), which strives for gender equality among the field of finance academics.

BEST PAPER AWARDS

The conference will offer multiple categories of best paper awards of USD1000. The awards will be sponsored by Asian Finance Association, Pacific Basin Finance Journal and other professional associations.

SPECIAL ISSUE OF PACIFIC BASIN FINANCE JOURNAL

Authors will have the option to explicitly nominate their paper to be considered for publication in a Special Issue of the Pacific Basin Finance Journal. Further details regarding the special issue process (which will include separate manuscript review & revision for those selected) will be forthcoming in due course